History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 662.
[Harrison County] [Cynthiana City and Precinct]
REV. RANSOM LANCASTER, minister, M. E. Church, P. O. Oddville, was born
in Madison County, Ky., April 15, 1818, son of Littleton and Nancy (Hays)
Lancaster; he a native of Spartansburg, S. C.; born in 1794; a farmer by
occupation, who came to Kentucky with his father, Jeremiah Lancaster, in
1798, and died in 1838; she, born in Madison County, Ky., daughter of
Solomon and Nancy Hays; they (Littleton and Nancy) had 11 children. Our
subject received his education in the common schools of Daviess County,
Ky., and began preaching the Gospel at the age of 21 years, which he has
since continued, as a minister of the Methodist Church. He was admitted
to the Kentucky Conference in 1842, and has been stationed in Virginia
and Kentucky ever since; was Presiding Elder of the Greenbriar District
for three years; on the Falmouth Circuit two years, and at present is on
the Oddville Circuit. Mr. Lancaster was married in Scioto County, Ohio,
May 13, 1845, to Miss Lucy White Hard, born July 19, 1818; daughter of
Jonathan and Sophronia (White) Hard; he, born in Vermont, in 1791; she,
in New Hampshire, in 1798. Five children have been born to Mr. Lancaster,
one of whom, Wm. Wirt, died at the age of one year; those living are:
Wesley A., Edgar B., Adelaide V., Mary E. He is the owner of 81 acres of
fine land, which he works himself, his place called "Sleepy Hollow." He
is a Knight Templar and a Democrat.
Lancaster Hays Hard White
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Madison-KY Daviess-KY Scioto-OH VT VA
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